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These Children Who Come At You With Knives

By: Simon & Schuster

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Modern Novels (Simon & Schuster)


Product Info

Title
These Children Who Come At You With Knives
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Jim Knipfel
Publish Year
2010
Pages
228
Dimensions
5.5x8.5x.75"
NKG Part #
2148143216
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

A masterful storyteller whose memoirs and novels have earned him widespread acclaim, this is Knipfel’s first foray into the short story, and he delivers in spades: this wickedly dark satire on the notion of happily ever after turns the traditional fairy tale on its head.

Among the array of lonely losers wallowing in discontent, the enterprising reader of this volume may meet a talking chicken who learns the world has little patience for intelligence, a foul-mouthed gnome set on world domination, and a magical snowman wrestling with the horror of being alive.

In These Children Who Come at You with Knives, Knipfel’s singular and brilliantly funny mind reinvents the bedtime story and offers up a wildly entertaining meditation on the perils of human nature.